top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-07-17

I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

https://www.techradar.com/in/features/ive-started-using-mozilla-firefox-and-now-i-can-never-go-back-to-google-chrome

4 years ago

George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf

https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600051h.html

4 years ago

The case for bad coffee (2015)

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-case-for-bad-coffee

4 years ago

Prose.sh – A blog platform for hackers

https://prose.sh/

4 years ago

Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/07/17/facebook-has-started-to-encrypt-links-to-counter-privacy-improving-url-stripping/

4 years ago

$9.99/month

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/999month

4 years ago

Killbutmakeitlooklikeanaccident.sh

https://gist.github.com/moyix/95ca9a7a26a639b2322c36c7411dc3be

4 years ago

A systems model of anxiety-driven procrastination

https://axle.design/a-systems-model-of-anxiety-driven-procrastination

4 years ago

Rowan Atkinson: Visual Comedy (1992) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeuiFa9pI7c

4 years ago

Picking up free lithium cells off the street and making them safe for use

https://www.atomic14.com/2022/07/16/free-lithium-cells.html

4 years ago

Bear Blog – A privacy-first, fast blogging platform

https://bearblog.dev

4 years ago

An interactive mechanical contraption in pure CSS

https://cohost.org/blackle/post/42994-contraption

4 years ago

Okay, Google: To protect women, collect less data about everyone

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/01/google-privacy-abortion/

4 years ago

Ask HN: How to deal with children's online habits?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32124809

4 years ago

I just finished reading a book and took lots of notes. Now what?

https://writing.bobdoto.computer/question-i-just-finished-reading-a-book-and-took-lots-of-notes-now-what/

4 years ago

Not interacting with people reduces cognitive function over time, study finds

https://infidelpro.com/not-interacting-with-people-reduces-cognitive-function-over-time/

4 years ago

Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse

4 years ago

Why am I excited about WebAssembly?

https://blog.colinbreck.com/why-am-i-excited-about-webassembly/

4 years ago

DataRobot employee resigns over stock sales

https://twitter.com/amir/status/1548345203504795654

4 years ago

New numbers on music consumption

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/the-new-numbers-on-music-consumption

4 years ago

Research Suggests That Software Piracy Lowers Poverty

https://torrentfreak.com/research-suggests-that-software-piracy-lowers-poverty-220717/

4 years ago

Building a radio-controlled submarine with automatic depth control

https://brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com/rc-submarine-4-0-blog-post-series/

4 years ago

Neural Network Loss Landscapes: What do we know? (2021)

https://damueller.com/#/blog-post/NNLLs

4 years ago

The high price we pay for social media

https://timharford.com/2022/07/the-high-price-we-pay-for-social-media/

4 years ago

Sitting and standing at work (2015)

http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStand.html

4 years ago

Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm7201

4 years ago

Bayes Rules – An Introduction to Applied Bayesian Modeling (2021)

https://www.bayesrulesbook.com/

4 years ago

I made advanced BI queries with Scratch puzzle pieces

https://pixelspark.nl/2022/making-advanced-bi-queries-childs-play-with-puzzle-pieces

4 years ago

The slow march of progress in programming language tooling

https://earthly.dev/blog/programming-language-improvements/

4 years ago

'I want your Instagram account': a deadly campaign over coveted handles

https://www.businessinsider.com/handles-instagram-twitter-social-media-deadly-harassment-campaign-2022-7

4 years ago

The MiniDisc deck you hoped to never see [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pe157yBa00

4 years ago

The speedy downfall of rapid delivery startups

https://www.wired.com/story/the-speedy-downfall-of-rapid-delivery/

4 years ago

Ask HN: How to get developers and UI designers to work well together

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32125466

4 years ago

“Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough

https://reneweconomy.com.au/eureka-moment-as-australian-researchers-make-hydrogen-storage-breakthrough/

4 years ago

Inflation Has Outpaced Wage Growth. Now It’s Cutting into Spending

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-has-outpaced-wage-growth-now-its-cutting-into-spending-11658050200

4 years ago

Bill Watterson, Picasso, and self promotion

https://herbertlui.net/bill-watterson-picasso-and-hn-on-self-promotion/

4 years ago

JavaScript Obfuscation Techniques by Example

https://www.trickster.dev/post/javascript-obfuscation-techniques-by-example/

4 years ago

Over-engineering an RGB LED strip: let’s make a custom programming language

https://pixelspark.nl/2021/over-engineering-an-rgb-led-strip-controller-lets-write-a-custom-programming-language-and-instruction-set

4 years ago

A Look Back at the USSR Computer Industry

https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/a-look-back-at-the-ussr-computer-industry/

4 years ago

35 years of 'RoboCop': An unforgettable vision of techno-fascist America

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/35-years-robocop-techno-fascist-america/

4 years ago

Tehran’s Red-Light District

https://failedarchitecture.com/the-hidden-history-of-tehrans-red-light-district/

4 years ago

Sony completes $3.6B deal to buy Bungie

https://www.engadget.com/sony-closes-bungie-acquisition-playstation-studios-190623763.html

4 years ago

Pleasant debugging with GDB and DDD

https://begriffs.com/posts/2022-07-17-debugging-gdb-ddd.html

4 years ago

Why concatenative programming matters (2012)

http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-concatenative-programming-matters.html

4 years ago

Trilium Notes: note taking application for large personal knowledge bases

https://github.com/zadam/trilium

4 years ago